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Gain the peace of mind knowing that you’ll be alerted when the back door sneaks ajar or the side window slides open, activate lights, and always be on top of your home's security. Useful for anything else that opens, with the Insteon Hub, you know the exact state of your home's situation, at home or away, day or night.

Automatic Automation

Brighten those dark closets and pantries with automation by turning lights on and off when you open and close the closet or pantry door.

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Let Insteon be your watchdog. With an array of Insteon sensors throughout your home, you can receive instant alerts via email or notifications the moment something is amiss.

I received four of these new units and wanted to share my thoughts about them. I was very fortunate to find these units did not in fact lose the jumper to allow dual mode as mentioned by others.

This can be explained by the fact these units were older stock units with hardware Rev 1.9, produced on 3514. The ISY indicates the firmware which includes the heartbeat function as v.40

This new addition of the heartbeat node is most welcomed and excellent to see. Having the heartbeat node allows the person to know if the placement of the unit is within RF range and if the battery is still operational.

The inclusion of the the external set / program button is most excellent. This is another great Insteon update to an existing product line.

I have written the above review for the benefit of others as Smarthome / Smartlabs has been absolutely terrible in their communications to the customer base about changes to the product line.

In 2015 your company needs to do a lot better in terms of updating the users manual and listing the change logs of features or deprecation of features from a product.

Having a customer purchase a item only to find out a specific feature has been removed / omitted is NOT being customer focused!

Lastly, your engineers need to relay this same information to the Tech Support people because they are getting bombed each day by customers telling them things they should already know!

But don't because none of you talk to each other.

Posted on 7/16/2015

Missing Features Review by Charles

Missing FeaturesCharles

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The jumper is no longer part of this unit and the manuals are completely irrelevant. This item can no longer operate two separate functions and will ONLY turn on a scene when the door is opened and off when it closes. If you want it to activate a scene when you open the door and not immediately turn off when the door closes, you are out of luck. Bad update and incorrect unstructions, not sure what they're thinking...

Smarthome response: We're sorry that the latest version no longer supports two separate functions via the jumper. The Insteon engineers did indicate that the functionality is still there but software selectable only. The latest manual will get posted shortly. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Posted on 3/31/2015

Instructions WRONG Review by Steve T

Instructions WRONGSteve T

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Instructions are completely wrong. Everything from pairing to default behavior. No jumper included. Called Tech Support...closed today. Finally got it paired, but don't like the way it's working; I need the jumper.

Posted on 3/7/2015

Review of 2843-222 Review by MICHAEL

Review of 2843-222MICHAEL

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Great Door sensor, but try the hidden door sensor first. No low battery for this unit.

Posted on 8/1/2014

Review of 2843-222 Review by LEONARD

Review of 2843-222LEONARD

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Works great so far.

Posted on 7/4/2014

Review of 2843-222 Review by SCOTT

Review of 2843-222SCOTT

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Easily installed, just think through the location beforehand. Orientation of the magnet isn't as critical as might be expected: I have two where the window/door type dictated rotating the magnet by 90 degrees on the long axis to make installation possible. Just test fit until you're sure the mounting positions will function reliably before attaching permanently. Functions properly and is supported via UDI's ISY series controllers. I gave four stars only because I don't know battery life, yet.

Posted on 7/2/2014

Review of 2843-222 Review by KENNETH

Review of 2843-222KENNETH

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generally working fine, but I cannot get one of them to stop sending alerts. I cleared out the phone number but I still get a text alert. Also the range seems to be an issue and I have a hub and extender.

Posted on 5/8/2014

Review of 2843-222 Review by JEFFREY

Review of 2843-222JEFFREY

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Easy to mount and easy to program, but you do need an "access point". Fortunately I already have a number of them in my system

Posted on 3/5/2014

Review of 2843-222 Review by JOHN

Review of 2843-222JOHN

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Turns on my shed lights automatically when I open my door. and acts like a alarm and notifies me of entry. Great when I'm away.

Posted on 1/10/2014

Review of 2843-222 Review by JOHN R

Review of 2843-222JOHN R

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Turns on my shed lights automatically when I open my door. and acts like a alarm and notifies me of entry. Great when I'm away.

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